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DOI | 10.1073/pnas.2003451117 |
Seismic refraction tracks porosity generation and possible CO2 production at depth under a headwater catchment | |
Xin Gu; Gary Mavko; Lisa Ma; David Oakley; Natalie Accardo; Bradley J. Carr; Andrew A. Nyblade; Susan L. Brantley | |
2020-07-27 | |
发表期刊 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Science |
出版年 | 2020 |
英文摘要 | In weathered bedrock aquifers, groundwater is stored in pores and fractures that open as rocks are exhumed and minerals interact with meteoric fluids. Little is known about this storage because geochemical and geophysical observations are limited to pits, boreholes, or outcrops or to inferences based on indirect measurements between these sites. We trained a rock physics model to borehole observations in a well-constrained ridge and valley landscape and then interpreted spatial variations in seismic refraction velocities. We discovered that P-wave velocities track where a porosity-generating reaction initiates in shale in three boreholes across the landscape. Specifically, velocities of 2.7 ± 0.2 km/s correspond with growth of porosity from dissolution of chlorite, the most reactive of the abundant minerals in the shale. In addition, sonic velocities are consistent with the presence of gas bubbles beneath the water table under valley and ridge. We attribute this gas largely to CO2 produced by 1) microbial respiration in soils as meteoric waters recharge into the subsurface and 2) the coupled carbonate dissolution and pyrite oxidation at depth in the rock. Bubbles may nucleate below the water table because waters depressurize as they flow from ridge to valley and because pores have dilated as the deep rock has been exhumed by erosion. Many of these observations are likely to also describe the weathering and flow path patterns in other headwater landscapes. Such combined geophysical and geochemical observations will help constrain models predicting flow, storage, and reaction of groundwater in bedrock systems. |
领域 | 地球科学 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/286804 |
专题 | 地球科学 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Xin Gu,Gary Mavko,Lisa Ma,et al. Seismic refraction tracks porosity generation and possible CO2 production at depth under a headwater catchment[J]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science,2020. |
APA | Xin Gu.,Gary Mavko.,Lisa Ma.,David Oakley.,Natalie Accardo.,...&Susan L. Brantley.(2020).Seismic refraction tracks porosity generation and possible CO2 production at depth under a headwater catchment.Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. |
MLA | Xin Gu,et al."Seismic refraction tracks porosity generation and possible CO2 production at depth under a headwater catchment".Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (2020). |
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